So you may have heard vague rumors that there’s a new Mad Max film coming out. You also may have heard that it stars Charlize Theron as a shaven-headed postapocalyptical badass named Furiosa alongside Tom Hardy as Mr. Max.
Well, the manly men of the Manospshere are having none of it. On the always terrible Return of Kings, the most-trafficked blog in the Manosphere, Youtube bloviator Aaron Clarey issues a clarion call to his fellow right-thinking men, urging them to
Not only REFUSE to see the movie, but spread the word to as many men as possible. … Because if [men] sheepishly attend and Fury Road is a blockbuster, then you, me, and all the other men (and real women) in the world will never be able to see a real action movie ever again that doesn’t contain some damn political lecture or moray about feminism, SJW-ing, and socialism.
Er, “moray?”
As Clarey sees it, the central flaw in this film that he hasn’t seen is, well, it’s going to be starring Charlize Theron as a shaven-headed postapocalyptical badass named Furiosa. And that’s just not right, because everyone knows that women are just too damn womeny to be postapocalyptical badasses.
Even worse: in one of the trailers for the film “Charlize Theron’s character barked orders to Mad Max. Nobody barks orders to Mad Max.”
Clarey also reports, with a kind of growing horror, that none other than Eve Ensler, of Vagina Monologues fame, was brought in to consult on the film. (And trust me, Clarey’s discomfort with Ensler has nothing to do with her issues with intersectionality.)
Sure, Clarey acknowledges, Fury Road — at least on the surface — “looks like that action guy flick we’ve desperately been waiting for where it is one man with principles, standing against many with none.” But, he warns, despite not having actually seen even a minute of the actual film, nothing could be further from the truth!
[L]et us be clear. … This is the Trojan Horse feminists and Hollywood leftists will use to (vainly) insist on the trope women are equal to men in all things, including physique, strength, and logic. And this is the subterfuge they will use to blur the lines between masculinity and femininity, further ruining women for men, and men for women.
Lines between masculinity and femininity blurring! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes. The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
Clarey worries that
men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes.
You might think that someone this worried about the legacy of the original Mad Max might have noticed somewhere along the way that Mad Max is not actually a “piece of American culture” at all. It was an Australian film, filmed in Australia, directed by an Australian, and starring an American citizen who’d been living in Australia since the age of twelve.
I’m guessing that the director of Fury Road might have a somewhat more nuanced understanding of the original Mad Max than someone who doesn’t even know what country the movie was made in, especially given that the director of Fury Road, the director of the original Mad Max, the director of The Road Warrior and the director of Beyond Thunderdome are actually all the very same person.
But over on Return of Kings the fellas are as furious about Furiosa as Clarey is. In the top comment to Clarey’s piece, with several dozen upvotes, someone calling himself “truth” complains that the evil feminists who run Hollywood are ignoring the immutable truths of gender.
Hollywood is a garbage propoganda machine which spews out this feminist drivel filth into the minds of today’s young audience. Even though science has told us and proven, that men are physically stronger than women, it is nonetheless discarded by the forces driving this feminist nonsense.
There is a sick agenda at play here, and it only continues to get worse over time. First this, and now the upcoming “Terminator Genisys” which shows Sarah Connor in a more heroic and superior position to that of Kyle Reese, really makes me wonder how much further down the toilet society is going to go down, in it’s ridiculous attempts to try and reverse the traditional gender and biological roles.
Because “traditional” and “biological” roles always seem to be the exact same thing to these guys.
It is clear that the brainwashing of the masses will continue to go on with the promotion of these absurd movies in conjunction with the whole “girl power” themes that are present in these films. Furthermore, factor in the indoctrination of the liberal schooling and educational system, there is no doubt, that masculinity will be attacked from all sides in attempt to make the female gender more superior. …
I guess from the damage that I am seeing on a daily basis being inflicted by the feminist movement, there is really no turning back. Men will continue to opt out of society and by rejecting to watch these kind of movies, can help to further cement this narrative. And if ever, should the manginas and white knights reach that epiphany when they realise they are not perceived as a credible voice in this feminist driven gynocentric matriarchy that we live in, then even they will opt out of society.
Huh. And, let me guess, once the men all “opt out of society,” it’ll collapse in a giant heap and desperate women will turn to men for help? No wonder these guys are so angry about Fury Road; it challenges their favorite apocalyptic fantasy. Call it Mad Max: I Told You Bitches You’d Come Crawling Back to Me.
Women and feminists in general have without a doubt, proven that they are dysfunctional by nature and cannot be trusted with anything. And this movie helps to prove it.
FWIW, dude, the movie was directed by a man. It was written by men. And even though it’s got a lot more women in it than your typical action movie, most of the named actors in it are male. But apparently, to guys like Clarey and “truth,” it only takes a few drops of female blood to contaminate an entire action film.
Always maintain your masculinity.
And once again it’s the guys who think of themselves as the most macho who are the ones most anxious about their masculinity.
Truth is also horrified by one of the posters he’s seen for the film:
Even though the movie is called “Mad Max”, the poster clearly centres around Charlize Theron, while Tom Hardy looks like some ordinary guy in the background.
A woman’s face … in front of a man’s face! Can masculinity survive this terrible assault?
Slashfund complains that in the poster it “looks like he is wearing a muzzle like her bitch.”
Well, not really. Anyone who’s seen the original Max Max and its first two sequels may remember that a lot of the characters wore weird headgear and creepy masks; this was intended to make them look scary and, you know, postapocalyptic. Max’s new mask is no different.
Clark Kent whines
Where I can’t stand these female characters in kickass movies is when it is so damn obvious that they are forcing the female character in just to appeal to the blue-pill masses. The whole point of Mad Max is that he is the most hardened self-respecting man in the post-apocalyptic world. He lived through the decline, and thus carries all the grief of having been strong enough to see what the world has become.
To turn Mad Max upside down and make it into a feminist flick is horribly telling of our times. Rather than creating new films to depict the world from a women’s perspective, we take the great myths of men and boys and rewrite them to make women happy.
What? Mad Max is a “great myth of men and boys” now? It’s a movie made in 1979, not a tale told around the campfire by our ancient ancestors. And don’t any of you Return of Kingers remember Beyond Thunderdome, the second Mad Max sequel, released six years after the original? You know, the one co-starring Tina Turner, stomping around like a badass as the ruthless ruler of Bartertown?
Like it or not, fellas, but badass women are part of Mad Max canon.
MajorStyles, for his part, suggests that the film may be part of a sinister plot to con men into liking women with (gasp!) short hair — a major Manosphere bugaboo.
And what’s the end game of all this horse shit? That Alpha men will start finding bald, androgyonous women with anger issues attractive? Yeah, when pigs fly…
Again, another fail on the part of Team Feminism. As it has been noted many times, they do not get to order men what to be attracted to. Erections cannot be legislated. Only a man of supreme thirst would find this angynous thing attractive.
And the women who choose to impersonate Theron’s look in this movie will always be relagated to the same position – bridesmaid, cat lady, or beta male abuser.
TS77RP1, meanwhile, wants his fellow men to think of the children. And what he thinks about the children — specifically, those of the female persuasion — is genuinely horrifying.
Seriously: if you’re having a decent day so far, or, hell, a crappy one — basically, if you’re a having any sort of day so far, you may want to skip the rest of this post. No joke.
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Ok, if you’re still with me, here we go:
The only way back is to begin punishing ambition in our daughters and in all female children. They need to be physically and psychologically disciplined to be servile and deferential and they unfortunately need to have it beaten into them that they should NEVER trust their own judgement and always seek guidance and permission of their male headships.
Please tell me this monster doesn’t have a daughter.
My daughter would be turned out with nothing but a shirt on her back if she so much as looked at a college website or played with her brother’s educational toys.
Aw, fuck.
She would be belted to the point of being unable to sit if she exhibited confidence in decision making.
Fucking hell. A proud abuser.
I don’t want my wife to step foot out of the house unless her every dime and minute spent can be accounted for and executed in conjuncture with my approval. My daughter will exude obedience and timidity for whoever her future husband is and it’s imperative that all Christian Men demand nothing less within their own homes. Playtime for feminazis and the left is over. This is our world and our heritage to protect. Let the cultural war begin!
No words.
In a followup comment, he assures one skeptic that his wife and daughter are indeed real.
I do in fact implement this in my own home and practice what I preach vehemently. I have a daughter and sons and they are being raised to know that they are unequivocally different and 100% not equal. My wife is from a highly devout family and she was cowed long ago into obedience by her powerful, alpha father. I kinda won the life lottery >:^)
I can only hope that he’s bullshitting in an attempt to impress the Return of Kings regulars.
But impress them he does, winning upvotes and an awestruck comment by englishbob:
Wow! Its like you have a mini Saudi Arabia right in your home!
Apparently hatred of women trumps hatred of Muslims on Return of Kings.
I have no idea if Mad Max: Fury Road is actually going to be a good film. But I hope it does well, very well, if for no other reason than to spite these assholes.
Oh good, you know what this thread was missing? A dude mansplaining women’s literature to us.
I had a man for a kindergarten teacher. Maybe that’s why I’m a horrid SJW now? I never learned proper gender roles, damnit!
@ Goddamn Batman
Will you settle for bi?
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Where I grew up, it was pretty much equally women and men.
Elsewhere, people are fed the message that only men are hunters, so girls don’t think much about hunting and aren’t taught how to hunt by their parents. But in areas where this message doesn’t exist? Where women are hunters and all children can see that, and all girls are taught how to use guns the same as boys?
Then women are hunters in pretty much the same numbers as men.
This is the reality of politics: what you tell people is true and right affects how they behave. No human behavior forms in the absence of culture. There is no such thing as “natural” human behavior. Even basic human drives like the need for food are shaped inexorably by culture, and there is no such thing as a “natural” expression of hunger.
When you tell women that it is true and right that they should take responsibility for putting meat directly to the table by killing it themselves, it turns out women do that pretty well.
Wait, didn’t you say you’re a gardener of 8 years?
Hunting is stereotyped as male sport through the modern social lens. But women have hunted with men and alongside men for as long as there has been prey to hunt. And as a hunter and forager myself, I find it interesting that both pursuits take great patience and the ability to be silent and wait, all of which are traits more normally assigned to women than to men in the modern view.
A landscaping exam?
Y’know, for a dude so obsessed with long words, Allie Boy sure can’t spell any of them.
It’s “Mondegreen.” There’s no such word as “Modegreen.”
Banana
I heard that the green lantern is supposed to be gay but I could be wrong.
@Alan Robertshaw
Don’t know if they count since I don’t recall any of them professing love or making out.
We’ve had lesbians action character, though, which…well…
Al, cite your sources. How do you know how many hunters are male or female? Are you assuming again? I’m not taking your word for it just because you assume.
Are you even from a rural area where hunting is common? Because I know all female teams of hog doggers and that is no joke. not to glorify violence, but you ever killed a mature boar with a Bowie knife while your dogs are still wrestling with it as it slashes at everything it can? They have. Have you ever even cleaned a deer? I bet you’ve never even cleaned a fish. I know little girls who can hit a turkey square in the eye. Can you?
No wonder you are so devoted to the idea that men are just naturally tough hunter types. It’s all you’ve got, isn’t it? You can only be manly enough when you are pretending you are the action hero and you’re afraid that women who actually do the shit you dream about are going to ruin your fantasy. That’s called denial and it isn’t healthy.
Aww, he finally flounced. Now I’ll never learn why this super important topic of gender stereotypes and preferences implies that casting a woman as an action hero in a completely fictional world is a political corruption, as opposed to just another artistic choice.
I think I scared him off with the Chaucer verse. Oops.
Bullshit. You couldn’t teach a fish to swim.
1979. The year we first got to meet Ellen Ripley. Clearly, the ‘rot’ had already begun.
@fruitloopsie
In the comics, yes, but the Ryan Reynolds adaption had to screw a lady because the non-comic book reading audience would be all, “ewwwwww gay people gross”.
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The verge has lowered the concentration of the cooties.
Well of course historically Spartans were practically obliged to take male lovers.
Spartan culture is very interesting. It illustrates one of the earliest examples of ‘slut shaming’. Spartan women were pejoratively nicknamed “Thigh flashers” by the women of other Greek Poleis because they wore mini skirts.
@Alan Robertshaw
Weren’t those “male lovers”, you know, male children?
Damn. I wrote WHTH instead of WHTM first. My mistake, Apologies.
Is it wrong that I found it intensely satisfying to watch AI get cornered and flounce? You just can’t make that kind of half assed BS up, and it’s lovely to see it go down in flames.
Mr AL is just a man of many talents, I guess. He’s a landscaper and a professor. I bet he’s also a litigator, test pilot, Navy SEAL and neurosurgeon! Not a nurse or secretary though. Those jobs have girl cooties.
Switching jobs is tooootally a MRAL thing, iirc.
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@fruitloopsie
“In the comics, yes, but the Ryan Reynolds adaption had to screw a lady because the non-comic book reading audience would be all, “ewwwwww gay people gross”.”
*people get blown up
*rape
*murdered in brutal ways
*showing guts
*torture
*violence
*etc
But showing gay people together is what “grosses” people out. ::sighs:: yeah ok -_-‘
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Well it’s a controversial subject in classics. The controversy though is mainly over whether there was a formal system of pederasty. Only one contemporary writer stats this to be the case. The other writers say that the older aristocrat acted in the role of a mentor or substitute father figure (essentially boys were raised communally away from their families).
Even if it was the case there was a physical relationship though it wouldn’t have been initiated until the younger man was aged 20 as that was the minimum age for admission into a syssitia (a sort of fraternity) and would have been assigned a mentor.